Fellows, Charles: Travels and researches in Asia Minor, more particularly in the province of Lycia (London, 1852)

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■the large Gothic-formed tomb at Antiphellus, also of the bilingual
inscription from the same place, and of another from Levisse, near
the ancient Telmessus.

I have now noticed all the works referable to the earliest in-
habitants of Lycia, and I believe the whole of this portion of the
collection has no parallel in any European museum.

Of the age of the next works of which I must speak, and which
are a large portion of the collection from Xanthus, I have great
difficulty in forming an opinion. The whole were found around
a basement which stands on the edge of a cliff to the south-east
of the ancient Acropolis. The monument which stood upon this
stoa has been thrown down by earthquake, almost the whole of
its ruins falling towards the north-west. These works are of a
people quite distinct from the preceding, both in their architec-
ture, sculpture, and language : these are purely Greek. On
carefully examining the whole of the architectural members of
which I have specimens selected (some retaining coloured pat-
terns upon them), as well as the position in which each of the
various parts were thrown, I have, in my own mind, reconstructed
the building, the whole of which was of Parian marble, and highly
finished. The monument which I suppose to have crowned this
basement has been either a magnificent tomb, or a monument
erected as a memorial of a great victory. In re-forming this, I
require the whole of the parts that we have found, and none are
wanting except two stones of the larger frieze, and the fragments
of the statues.

The art of this sculpture is Greek, but the subjects show many
peculiarities and links to the earlier works found in Lycia. The
frieze, representing the taking refuge within a city, and the sally
out of its walls upon the besiegers, has many points of this cha-
racter. The city represented is an ancient Lycian city, and has
within its walls the stele, or monument known alone in Xanthus.
The city is upon a rock; women are seen upon the walls. The
costume of the men is a longer and thinner garment than is seen
in the Attic Greeks. The shields of the chiefs are curtained.
The saddle-cloth of the jaded horse entering the city is precisely
like the one upon the Pegasus of Bellerophon, and the conqueror
and judge is an Eastern Chief, with the umbrella, the emblem of